by admin | Mar 23, 2018 | Featured, Home Page, News
We have long been proud of our enduring partnership with the non-profit grassroots organization, Of One Accord in Rogersville where it serves the neediest in the rural impoverished east Tennessee counties of Hawkins and Hancock. We especially value the strong bond and...
by admin | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, General, Home Rehabilitation
Bruce Johnson developed muscular dystrophy many years ago. Since then, he has lost his ability to walk and is bound to a wheelchair. Without the proper wheelchair ramp, his wife Karen, and their daughter, Susan, have a lot of difficulty getting him in and out of the...
by admin | Feb 21, 2018 | Basic Needs, Featured, Gen, General, Home Gen, Home Page, News, Personal Stories, Utility Assistance
For the first time in 65 years of married life, after coming home from the hospital himself, Mr. Jones was scared his wife would also return from the hospital to a cold home. He had been out for three hours driving from one church to another determined to find someone...
by admin | Feb 15, 2018 | Basic Needs, Featured, Home Page, Mighty Molars, News, Wellness
Poor dental health is not only painful for children, but is also correlated to persistent poverty. As noted in the New York Times – “Experts have long observed that people’s teeth both reflect and reinforce poverty.” This is why we work so hard to...
by admin | Jan 25, 2018 | Basic Needs, Featured, News, Personal Stories, Utility Assistance
“Somebody does care ‘bout an old woman and her dog,” Ms. Stella told us after worrying about how to pay her power bill last winter. She and her four-legged companion Joe literally could’ve been out on the street as public housing will evict a tenant if their...
by admin | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured, News, Programs
At the start of every new year, millions of Americans make resolutions such as to eat healthier and exercise more, but as the days and weeks of January pass by their resolve to keep those resolutions falls by the wayside as old habits return. Such is not the case at...
